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by PopeOfNope
3975 days ago
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> (is there anything sadder than a political agenda that can be expressed in 140 characters?) Sadder? Or anger inducing? I'm convinced the reason twitter succeeded is that it wound up being an echo chamber for the outraged. A perfect platform for trolls. You can't explain anything sufficiently in 140 characters, so dialectic is out. The fallback is usually rhetoric (appeals to emotion), with anger being the most effective. The end result is you have an internet shouting match where everybody is trying to piss off everyone else and nobody can clarify anything. It's the digital embodiment of CGP Grey's video "This video will make you angry[0]". [0]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc |
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